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Build Customized Apps with Amazon Honeycode

By : Aniruddha Loya
Book Image

Build Customized Apps with Amazon Honeycode

By: Aniruddha Loya

Overview of this book

Amazon Honeycode enables you to build fully managed, customizable, and scalable mobile and web applications for personal or professional use with little to no code. With this practical guide to Amazon Honeycode, you’ll be able to bring your app ideas to life, improving your and your team’s/organization’s productivity. You’ll begin by creating your very first app from the get-go and use it as a means to explore the Honeycode development environment and concepts. Next, you’ll learn how to set up and organize the data to build and bind an app on Honeycode as well as deconstruct different templates to understand the common structures and patterns that can be used. Finally, you’ll build a few apps from scratch and discover how to apply the concepts you’ve learned. By the end of this app development book, you’ll have gained the knowledge you need to be able to build and deploy your own mobile and web applications. You’ll also be able to invite and share your app with people you want to collaborate with.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Honeycode
7
Part 2: Deep-Dive into Honeycode Templates
13
Part 3: Let's Build Some Apps

Reviewing the app

In the previous sections, we have defined how we want our app to work, what data we will need for it, and how that data is being stored and linked in the template workbook. Now, let's review how the template created the Survey app and link it all together to work.

The entire app is comprised of only three screens – Home, Thanks, and Survey – as shown in Figure 7.9:

Figure 7.9 – The screens in the Survey app

Home

This is the home screen of the app. The screen consists of two main sections – a block at the top that contains a welcome note and a button to start the survey.

Figure 7.10 – The Home screen

Figure 7.10 – The Home screen

The START SURVEY button has automation defined to first create or update a table row for the participant. It then navigates to the Survey screen while setting the InputRow variable to be the newly added or existing row for the participant (see Figure 7.11). This enables...